To put it in Lapis's terms, she "never believed in this place". That's what has me thinking she was just a post-war casualty, with the gems worrying that she'd be caught and interrogated like she was when she got home.

Actually, if they do cure Simon, I want it to wind up being in an open-ended and emotionally ambivalent way, like they've been doing in S6. We've already seen Simon in "Betty" as someone who seems to have come to terms with his own death sometime during his possession and curse, and I think there might be some fertile…

What about it would be creepy? Is it because Amethyst is an owl?

I just mean that her stuff is kinda sentimental in a way that feels out-of-place with the show's aesthetic, or at least its current one. Sure, you see stuff like "Thank You" and "Too Young", that have that sort of tone, but most of my favorite AT stuff either relies on the fairy-tale subversiveness of Herpich or the…

I think the taboo against fusion is just values drift over time, a combination of Gems becoming a technology-based society and Gems at the top enforcing the current "might makes right" social order. If you look at the weapons strewn on the battlefield in "Rose's Scabbard", you'll notice that some of them are way too…

Confession: I like AT and I like SU, but I've never considered Sugar's stuff my favorite AT material for the reasons you mention.

Man, this place feels empty without the SU thread. Are you guys lonely? Should we come back? (Joking.)

I kinda don't want the Ice King to be cured, and I dunno what the show would do if he actually was. Simon isn't really meant to be an actual character so much as a symbol of his lost sanity.

Yeah, I am really interested in Jermaine. I could've watched the subtitled version from Latin America, but I got thirty seconds in and realized watching an episode with Jake not voiced by John DiMaggio was a no-go.

This seems like a pretty quiet week, so… Speculation Thread!

Oh man, that version of Rose's theme is great. I've been listening to a lot of solo acoustic stuff recently.

Lars trying ridiculously hard to please Buck Dewey is a better look for him than antagonizing Ronaldo and Sadie.

I have problems with Pearl endangering Steven, but it's a little hard to judge when "Steven is recklessly endangered" is such a trope in the action episodes, especially early on. This show just features a lot of Steven almost getting himself killed. Someone should keep a running tally.

I swear, I've been looking at rest of the season's episode titles for so long that they've started sounding like poetry. "Chips & Ice Cream"? "Be Sweet"? "You Forgot Your Floaties"? For whatever reason I'm really excited for those based on the names alone.

Abraham Lincoln of Mars.

Come on, haven't you ever had the dream where your furniture comes to life and makes you feel intellectually inadequate?

Yeah, crazy sudden delays and offbeat schedules work fine for something like Gravity Falls, which are self-contained Swiss watches and will land just as well whenever you air it, but something like Adventure Time, which pushes a lot of traditional storytelling boundaries, kinda demands sympathetic scheduling.

I dunno, I felt like we needed a little bit of a reminder that the Ice King is, in fact, dangerous and mentally ill. The shot of Abracadaniel encased in ice was hilarious and subversive to me.

Pearl is a bit OoC in "Space Race", "Full Disclosure" is a little wonky, and I don't think "Bubble Buddies" came off as well as it should've.

So yeah, I was really not expecting to like this one the most out of the delayed S1 eps, but here we are. Just a lot of killer low-key humor from Mayor Dewey and Steven, plus that hilarious scene where Steven asks the Gems for help.